Word: romps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic was driven from his home or church in Italy last week. To dramatize the passive struggle of the Church, Pius XI suspended all open air religious services and processions. Thus on Corpus Christi Day (which exuberant Italians have always celebrated in the street with the romp and frolic of a Mardi Gras fête) the only Catholic observances last week were services in church. To their subdued congregations, priests distributed printed copies of utterances by the Holy Father which censorship kept out of the Italian press...
Those who return with no practical cares romp through a week, hard on their endurance but furnishing enough nervous excitement to carry them along, and return to their homes tired. But they gain experience in their short stay in Cambridge which is valuable in the formation of an understanding that though the fundamentals of college are ever the same, undergraduate life is constantly changing and has left them out-of-date...